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E-2.20 Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment.
 

Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, is an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. He is an international lecturer and public speaker, appearing at political, university, medical, legal, bioethics, and community gatherings across the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.

In May 2004, National Journal named Smith one of the nation's top expert thinkers in bioengineering because of his work in bioethics.

Attorney Wesley J. Smith is the author or co/author of 10 books. His most recent book Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World, ponders the dangers and potential benefits of human cloning, stem cell therapies, and genetic engineering. Among his other books are Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, Power Over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need, and Forced Exit: the Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder. He is currently conducting research for a book he will write on the animal rights/liberation movement.

Wesley J Smith's writing and opinion columns have appeared in such national and regional news publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard magazine, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Post, First Things, Forbes magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Detroit News among many others. Smith has appeared internationally on the electronic media, including such programs as CNN Crossfire, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Nightline, and the Sunday Program on BBC 4 radio. Wesley J. Smith is on the advisory board of the Catholic Educator's Resource Center.


807 posted on 02/12/2006 12:39:00 PM PST by Coleus (IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
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To: Coleus

Wesley J Smith is one of my favorite authors. Thank you for the very informative post on Mr Smith.


817 posted on 02/12/2006 3:43:22 PM PST by Pepper777
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To: Coleus

Post 807 - worth checking out. A bioethicist with a brain and compassion. Wesley Smith


824 posted on 02/12/2006 6:39:52 PM PST by floriduh voter (http://www.conservative-spirit.org)
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